Originally Posted by
akcae
If you're looking for flights ex-EU to the US, this is Delta's doing: they charge "international origination fee" of several hundred dollars for award tickets out of Europe, regardless of the carrier. Avoiding Aeroflot won't eliminate this fee.
The international origin fee out of Russia is 93 EU for both Y and J awards which is not all that unreasonable and clearly not "several hundred dollars". Not nearly as bad as many other European countries (particularly the ones that also hit you with APD/"Solidarity" taxes). J awards from France have a airline surcharge of 178 EU and a solidarity tax of 45 EU. From the UK, you get hit with a 144.50 GBP airline charge and 150 GBP UK APD tax for J tickets.